of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … the wage effect of emigration, instead …

to develop longitudinal measures of emigration and to assess how social ties and individual economic position predict … emigration. Cox proportional hazards models indicate that the propensity to emigrate is particularly pronounced for those with … those with relatively short durations in the country, have substantially higher emigration rates than later …

We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of 'home bias'. In contrast to existing …

performance at the local level. We instrument emigration intensity with local temperature shocks during an inflection point of the … be partially attributed to the reduction in the share of the landed elites in high-emigration regions. We show that the …